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Research Analyst
QA Media• February 2018 - January 2019
Utilized my communication skills to carry out telephone interviews with financial services professionals to obtain feedback on their use of software service providers. This information went to the QA Vector 500, a tracking database of consultants and vendors of QA (Quality Assurance) services. Member of QA Media’s Marketing team, where I conducted research and generated leads by utilising platforms such as LinkedIn. Worked with the Marketing Director to promote QA Media’s conferences and webinars, helping create brand awareness across multiple verticals ranging from Banking to E-Commerce. Gained greater insight into the technological side of the financial services and banking industry.
Education
General Assembly
Software Engineering, Certificate of Completion• January 2019 - April 2019
General Assembly’s Web Development Immersive (WDI) is a 12 week long training program dedicated to prepare students to think like engineers and approach problems creatively in order to build the next generation of web applications and digital products. Skills: HTML & CSS, Javascript, Express.js. Node.js, Unix, React.js, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL
University College London (UCL), University of London, London
Translation, MA• September 2017 - September 2018
Primary academic interests included the history and theory of translation, translation ethics, and politics in translation. Worked with translation technologies such as SDL Trados, Wordfast, and memoQ. Dissertation, entitled “Talkative Trump: the ethics of post-truth translation,” focuses on translation ethics and political accountability in the post-truth age. I was awarded a distinction mark for my dissertation.
State University of New York at Binghamton
Spanish, BA• August 2012 - December 2015
Primary academic interests included literary translation, Latin American politics and history, Spanish linguistics, and Hispanic Literature. Gained valuable, practical experience as a translator while doing independent research.